‘I always wore perfume, but the collection really got going in my forties when I had the money to commit to it. It was my first bottle of perfume and I’ve still got it now.’ Three decades, 500 bottles and almost half a million Australian dollars later, Tamara has curated what amounts to a personal perfume museum in her own home. ‘When I was six, my mum took me to a department store and she bought me this teeny tiny purple bottle of Berdoues Violette with an atomiser. ‘I never wanted toys or sweets as a child, I only ever wanted perfume,’ she explains. Like Lisa, perfume obsessive Tamara Clegg has collecting in her bones. The coveted collection inspired her debut book Face Paint: The Story Of Makeup and often appears in exhibitions at the V&A, where they have a lot more storage space than Lisa does.
'I keep an eye out for anything that might be a future icon, but I hate vintage-inspired packaging – I want to collect pioneers of each era, not pastiche’, she says. Lisa has amassed a collection of vintage make-up that spans 700 AD (an ancient Chinese powder compact) through to the present day.
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‘It’s already full and we’ve only just moved in!’, she says. We’re nestled in her North London studio, just off the main Camden strip, where towers of carboard boxes overflowing with vintage make-up are yet to be unpacked. ‘I have alerts for eBay auctions going off on my phone daily,’ says make-up artist Lisa Eldridge, who uses white handling gloves to open endless white drawers, each carefully filled with dozens of rare beauty artefacts. From month-long eBay trawls to adrenaline-filled auctions and schmoozing fellow collectors on Twitter, there’s seemingly no limit to what beauty sleuths are willing to do for their next hit.
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